Steam Refunds

>*Play game for 1 hour and 50 minutes (possibly even beat the game in this time)*
>"I've had enough of that. Give me my money back, Steam."
>*Gets refund*

Why is this allowed?

why shouldn't it

>Beating a game within 2 hours
>Worth money
Pick one

Blame the lack of demos nowadays. And people have the right to satisfaction in what they buy. If I buy something from a store that's broken or not what I expect, I can return it. Same shit should apply to digital purchases. And if your game can be beaten in under 2 hours, without cheating or speedrunning, it's irredeemable trash.

I do that with EB games all the time except they have a 7 day return policy.

I agree, there should be no time limit.
I mean, it's not like you are getting actual money back. Just crappy in-store credit.

If your game can be beat in 2 hours you deserve it.

>Play game for 1 hour and 50 minutes (possibly even beat the game in this time)
>(possibly even beat the game in this time)


why is this allowed

Do refunds incur some sort of charge to whoever gives the refund?

If so that's sort of funny.

You realise you can refund it to PayPal, Mastercard etc right? Not just the in-store service

Probably. Valve probably still wants its cut for handling the refund and everything else.

>buy a game from GameStop
>play it for a whole week and beat it
>return it and get my money back
>repeat with another game
Why is this allowed?

>steam
Is this a gay thread?

>game is shorter than 2 hours
Why is this allowed?

Refunding any product is a customer's right, and "we don't accept refunds" is bullshit, you can always go to court for and win

>go to court because muh refunds
>thousands lost for lawyer
>end up costing more than it's worth
>the defendant ends up winning anyway

Yep it's that easy

>making a game that is shorter than the refund period and so bad that i want to refund it
Why is this allowed?

>why is this allowed?
Because of based Australia.

2 hours is nowhere near enough. For some games you'll spend half that time in menus and loading screens.

Consumer protection I guess.

Because finally we're getting some protection against Zionist practices.

I beat Furi within 2 hours.

The game is really well made and good but it's still technically possible to beat within 2 hours on your first try. Not every short game has a low amount of replay value.

Also the quality of the game is not dependent on the playtime. You don't go to the movies and complain it has only 2 hours of screentime instead of 3.5 hours.

Even the Rambo game from two years ago had 4 hours of content, you buy video games for large amounts of entertainment for a long time.

it is easy. Being poor is not a detriment in the way that it makes it difficult. It's an easy win in the court.

What happens if you beat the game in offline mode in more than 2 hours, can they find out?

You got reply in thousands of these threads you already made, fuck off.

It encourages developers to produce games that work and provide a decent amount of entertaining playtime. Why would you be against it?

It may be exploitable by a portion of users to some extent. But I honestly do not see what those people are getting out of it. And you make laws and rules for the general public, not for a tiny fraction of socioptaths that abuse systems just for the sake of abusing them.

If there was a niche of $1-4 games with 2-3 hours of playtime ("interactive movies" or shit like that), then those might have a hard time on steam. But on the other hand, it's good to know that steam has a system in place that prevents shit like this from even being produced.

Underage

I'm interested in this now.

Only game that i'd feel bad about suffering from that would probably be Grow Home.

Even then it has ubishit behind its back and sold well enough to warrant a sequel.

Refunds are not a problem unless game warranted a refund.

Half that time? You haven't played enough jrpgs.

If your game has less than two hours worth of content, you should be charging $3 tops, and if that's the case most people are willing to part with that much if they're actually satisfied with what they got. The two hour policy only fucks over blatant exploitation of consumers.

A little thing called consumer rights you filthy Jew.

Sup Forums

>buy game
>get past tutorial
>unlock multiplayer to play with friend
>doesn't work
>get refund

Thanks steam refund